Quote Originally Posted by s7e9h3n View Post
Just confirmed that B1 IS the stepping on currently available Barcelonas. We won't be seeing B2's until AMD starts ramping up the speeds on quads; as evidenced by Anandtech's EARLY Phenom chip.
But that Dave Graham guy was swearing up and down that B1 had some performance crippling bug, how could they be shipping that? Or is the Dave Graham guy full of crap?

Oh wait, here was his original post on the subject:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=150

So that performance crippling bug that he claimed invalidated the the Coolaler benchies was a bug that impacted a single set of obscure memory bandwidth benchmarks (http://www.streambench.org/) that I'd never even heard of before.

LOL